Supersitious Beliefs

"Razai chi Pir Baba la lar sho, deer maranay day swal pa lara qablaween" (lets visit the shrine of Pir Baba, no one returns without being entertained----even desired are fulfilled before reaching the shrine.) It is a famous tappa, a most liked genre of Pashto music, where a female asks her fellow friends for visiting the shrine of Pir Baba in Buner (an area) with a hope of getting their desires fulfilled. Such poetry is very common amongst Pakhtuns reflecting the superstitious beliefs amongst women of Khyber Pakhtunkhawa (KPK) province.
Beliefs are said to be statements to which members of a particular community adhere and are obeyed regularly. Every community has its own social organization and belief system that direct the course of life of individual within their relative social structure and thus maintain a sequential and orderly life. The areas belong to Pakhtuns in KPK province having its typical and traditional belief system, which is strictly followed by the inhabitants. Such belief system is an amalgamation of traditions, values and religious ideology that includes folk wisdom, traditional ideology, superstitious beliefs as well as modern ideologies came from forces of modernity and social change.
The community as demarcated as Pakhtuns has no such extensive religious knowledge and understanding and thus they are involved and stuck to superstitious beliefs. Women have strong beliefs to visit Sooth Sayers (Pirs) and shrines and extend forth every possible offering. Women, particularly aged, visit shrines on regular basis known as Gailai and give Nazrani (donations) to care takers of shrines. Like a poet says, "Ka me janaan Khuday Zama Ko, no ma da Pir Baba jhnaday manale dina" (if I succeeded getting my love, I will decorate Pir Baba with colorful flags). Most of the females (few of men) strongly believe in healing power of Taweez (amulets) and Sakhtoona (written scripts). They are used to cure serious diseases usually associated with Kode Taveezona...